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Stacking hay on the Chester Mayer Ranch (Eagle, Colorado), not the Eagle Ranch subdivision on Brush Creek. The hay was lifted to the top of the stack by a "Mormon Derrick," a weight and pulley arrangement using a crane. The derrick is in the center of the photo with horse teams and rakes "pushing" hay to the loading area.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Frank Schoonover sitting on potato digger with Joe Dice (7 or 8 years old) standing, facing the camera. The digger is pulled by a 4-head team during potato harvest on the Shryack Place, lower Brush Creek. Farm buildings in right background.
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An unidentified man is leveling field previously plowed, probably disced and/or harrowed. Level or "drag" on which he is standing carries a small amount of soil with it that is shaved off the high places, and then if leaks out underneath into the low places to create a uniform (or level) slope so that irrigation water flows uniformly. Is used only on irrigated ground. Judgement of operator had large influence on success. He is on the Dice Ranch,...
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Loading 100# sacks of potatoes onto wagon at the Shryack Place (also called the Mosher Place) on lower Brush Creek. From there, the sacks would be taken to "spud" cellars. Two horse team is pulling the wagon; farm buildings in left background.
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Bob & Mary Jo Trezise watching their father, Robert, till their garden with horses, Dick and King. There is a swingset in the left background and a sandbox in the right foreground.
9) Teddy Boy
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Teddy Boy the foal has a bright white spot on his forehead. There is a fenceline and telephone line in the background.
